scenarist

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Recent Examples of scenarist The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split). Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022 McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend. Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021 Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars. Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenarist
Noun
  • Louise Silverio, scriptwriter, and Anne Raffin, art director and director, are leading development.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 June 2025
  • Another event will feature the camp-tastic Village People origin movie, Can’t Stop the Music, featuring a discussion with original scriptwriter Bruce Vilanch.
    Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Films are written by screenwriters who are not the directors.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 June 2025
  • A number of his family members, including sister Talia Shire, daughter Sofia, son Roman, nephew Nicolas Cage, nephew Jason Schwartzman and granddaughter Gia Coppola, have also held flourishing careers as actors, directors and screenwriters.
    Sharareh Drury, People.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • She was frequently caught short by the playwright’s winking ambush.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • Hamilton was married to poet and playwright Frank Jenkins (Driving While Black in Beverly Hills) from 1964 until his death in 2014.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • And the writer’s astonished eyes answer: yes, that was me.
    Jayson Greene, Time, 17 June 2025
  • Demetrius Simms Demetrius Simms is a digital staff writer at Robb Report.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Cords dangle uncovered from teensy lamps, pens live in a vintage-looking tomato can, and there’s a random magic 8 ball next to the huge hatbox for the huge hat.
    Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 12 June 2025
  • Odell, the author of celebrity biographies like Anna, as well as the essay collection Tales from the Back Row, tells PEOPLE that turning her pen to Paltrow’s story felt like a natural next step.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 12 June 2025

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“Scenarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenarist. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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